Palestinian

The term Palestinian refers to an admixture of several ethno/linguistic groups from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe who emigrated to the geographical region of Palestine during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The term came into modern usage in the English speaking world by creation of the Palestinian Mandate in 1919, and has no native origins among residents of the geographic region. Jews at the time of the British Mandate of Palestine were also classified as "Palestinian".

During the 2012 Gaza conflict and border closure, a Hamas boss in Gaza remarked in a public statement, "half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis."

Activist: "Palestine may exist in the minds of those who seek to do Israel harm. But in the real world, it is nothing more than a mirage. And a malevolent one at that."

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An uninformed observer scrolling through X (formerly known as Twitter) could be forgiven for assuming that there is an entity called Palestine that is under occupation and is clamoring to be released. On a daily basis, Palestinians and their supporters flood social media, and a lot of public thoroughfares too, with demands, declarations, and disinformation, repeating ad nauseam their insistence to “free Palestine” as though it is the central issue on the international agenda. This mantra has been harped on for so long, and so often, that many people believe it to be urgent and even true; some out of ignorance, others out of willful disregard for history or reality. And that is why it often comes as such a surprise to some to learn that they have been hoodwinked. After all, Palestine is the equivalent of political science fiction, an entity invented with the sole aim of delegitimizing Israel and undermining its existence. Six centuries before the advent of Islam, when Jews rose up in the first revolt against the Romans in the years 66 CE to 70 CE, they minted coins that read “Judea,” not “Palestine.” The latter term came into use only after Rome quelled the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE and sought to negate the Jewish connection with the Land of Israel. And while it may have been adopted as a geographical term by Israel’s adversaries, Palestine was never an independent state. Hence, calling for a “free Palestine” is logically absurd, if only because there is no such thing as an occupied state of Palestine in the first place. It is akin to demanding liberty for the Loch Ness monster or autonomy for the Abominable Snowman. And just because many people believe it, in no way lends it credence. Indeed, prior to the 1947 UN partition plan, even Palestinian Arab leaders denied that Palestine existed. Take, for example, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, who testified in 1937 before the Peel Commission, which the British government established to investigate the outbreak of Arab violence in the British-ruled Land of Israel. Abdul-Hadi told the commission that “there is no such country as Palestine! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.” A decade later, in May 1947, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee told the UN General Assembly much the same. When did Palestinian nationalism come about? WHAT CAME to be known as Palestinian nationalism was born in subsequent decades, as the Arab states found it to be a useful tool in their attempt to destroy Israel. This led them to promote the creation of a Palestinian identity in order to forge a narrative of Arab victimhood and Israeli aggression, which suited their agenda. With the help of the media and Israel’s foes, the Palestinians’ claims to the Land of Israel became amplified and even accepted by a large number of people around the world – many, if not most, of whom do not know the first thing about the Middle East. Sadly, many Jews are also no longer familiar with the historical record and have come to accept Palestinian assertions as true, even though there has never been a free Palestine. And yet, not that long ago, this was a widely recognized and accepted fact. Consider remarks made by prime minister Golda Meir. In an interview with The Sunday Times on June 15, 1969, Meir said, “There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state?” Furthermore, she noted, “It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people, and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.” Such assertions may sound unsettling because they run counter to what is now considered to be conventional wisdom. But that is merely because we have succumbed to decades of pro-Palestinian propaganda and indoctrination that have virtually drowned out dissenting voices.

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Trouw [Dutch newspaper] March 3, 1977: Statement by Zuheir Mohsein, Member of the Supreme Council of the PLO: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity, because it is in the interest of the Arabs to encourage a separate Palestinian identity in contrast to Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the fight against Zionism and for Arab unity.” Statement by Ahmed Shuqeiri [Shukeiri / Shukairy / Shuqayri], to the UN Security Council in 1949: “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.” Hamas [“Islamic Resistance Movement”] was formally established in December 1987 by Sheik Ahmad Yassin, after the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising, known as the first Intifada. The following year, Hamas declared that liberating Palestine from Israeli occupation was every Muslim’s religious duty. Yassin was a Palestinian cleric, who became an activist in local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood after dedicating his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo. During the late 1960s, Yassin preached and performed charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza, both of which Israel occupied, following the 1967 War. Enter General Ariel Sharon. The Washington Post provided an unusual biography of Sharon, “What’s Needed from Hamas” by Henry A Kissinger on February, 2006. A key observation by Kissinger is as follows: Under Sharon, Israel seemed prepared to withdraw from close to 95% of West Bank territory, to abandon a significant percentage of the settlements—many of them placed there by Sharon—involving the movement of tens of thousands of settlers into pre-1967 Israel, and to compensate Palestinians for the retained territory by some equivalent portions of Israeli territory. Significant percentages of Israelis are prepared to add the Arab part of Jerusalem to such a settlement as the possible capital of a Palestinian state. Until the Oslo agreement in 1993, Israel refused to deal with the PLO because its charter required the elimination of Israel and its policies included frequent recourse to terrorism. Kissinger asserts “A serious process assumes reciprocal willingness to compromise.” And if this is not possible? Hamas represents the mind-set that prevented the full recognition of Israel’s legitimacy by the PLO for all previous decades, kept Yasser Arafat from accepting partition of Palestine at Camp David in 2000, and produced 2 intifadas and consistently supported terrorism. What would be needed from Hamas is an evolution comparable to Sharon’s. The magnitude of that change is rarely adequately recognized.” Hamas was convinced there is no alternative strategy—-a much harder task since the Sharon view was, in its essence secular, while the Hamas view is fueled by a religious conviction. A diplomatic frame work is needed within which Israel can carry out those parts of the road map capable of unilateral implementation, and the world community could strive for an international status that ends violence while leaving open the prospect of further progress towards permanent peace. Perhaps something as fundamental as Arutz 7’s “Anti-Semitism is enshrined in the Quran” posted on Nov 13, 2013 by Shari Goodman might prove helpful. It commences with, “Many Americans have been led to believe that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over land when indeed it is a religious conflict with its origin rooted in the Quranic doctrine consumed with Jew hatred throughout its numerous passages.” The formation of Islam began with Mohammad in 610 A.D. in the city of Mecca where he attempted to convince the local population what he perceived to be divine messages. In 627, a mere 5 years after Muhammad arrived in medina, he ordered and oversaw the beheading of approximately 900 Jewish men on trumped up charges of conspiring with the enemy . The Jewish women became sex slaves, and their children were taken into slavery. Thus, the refusal of Jews some 1400 years ago to accept Mohammad as a prophet has “enshrined Islam with contempt and Jew hatred for all of eternity.” It is clear within Islam, Jews are to be loathed and murdered. They are referred to as “apes and pigs, disbelievers, cowards, liars, and they are set up as a target who can run and hide but cannot avoid the sword of the Islamic warrior. While abhorrent to most Westerners when viewed through the lens of Quranic doctrine, Hamas massacre of Jewish civilians [babies beheaded, women raped and mutilated, the elderly and infants burned alive, and men beheaded] is totally justified in the name of Allah. The notion of the Palestinian Arabs as a nation is a recent invention. Palestine’s Arabs are indistinguishable from the Arabs in neighboring countries, especially the Arabs in Jordan, which is in effect a Palestinian-Arab state. Creating a second Palestinian state would be the 22nd Arab state is unjustified. MIDA published Judith Bergman’s “Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People” on Nov/09/2017. She wisely introduces her essay, “When the Ottoman rule ended, there was no Palestinian national identity or political borders. I was all made up later. Arabs themselves say so, but the west isn’t listening.” Apparently, as Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad speaking on Al-Hekma TV said on March 2012: ‘Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Damietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians–” “Outside the gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound”, wrote French poet Alphonse de Lamartine about his visit in 1835. In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s monumental “Fighting Terrorism” on Page 103, we find,” Over the years, Gaza has become a symbol to Israelis as a lair of some of the most rabid Jew-haters in the Middle East. Despite a rich Jewish history, Gaza has become a byword for a hostile and alien place, one of the few bits of land taken by Israel in the Six Day War of which many Israelis would be pleased to rid themselves.”

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This fact was reiterated widely, including by authors, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and others.

Since 1948 the term generally has come to refer mostly to ethnic Arabs, who originated from other Middle Eastern countries. Some seek to create a state in parts or all of the geographic region. Those advocating the latter view often advocate the destruction of the state of Israel. Most reside in Gaza, the West Bank, or Jordan. The King of Jordan has refused to grant citizenship to Arab refugees from "Palestine", in part due to political pressure from other Islamic countries.

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Palestinian UN Status

There are numerous occupied people around the world seeking statehood or national liberation, including Kurds, Tibetans and Turkish Armenians. The only group that has received official recognition by the UN, including observer status and the right to speak and participate in committed work, is the same group that invented modern international terrorism – namely the Palestinians.
These rewards were first granted in the 1970's, when the PLO, committed to the destruction of a UN member state, was invited to speak before the UN General Assembly. By rewarding the PLO for such policies, the UN made it possible to adopt terrorism as a means of protest.

The Tibetans, whose land was brutally stolen from them and occupied for a longer period then the Palestinians, never practiced terrorism and cannot even get a hearing with the UN. The UN has refused to condemn terrorism unequivocally, and has instead upheld "the legitimace of the struggle for national liberation movements against occupiers. In other words, the use of terrorism against innocent civilians to resist occupation is legitimate. 

The UN routinely allows Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists to use UN-sponsored refugee camps as terrorist bases. Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, a Canadian UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon by an IAF missile strike on his post, wrote an e-mail only six days before he was killed to his former commander in the Canadian army. He said that Hezbollah was using the UN post as a human shield. Kruedener added in the email that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes near the UN post prior to his death were "necessary," and that the IDF fire was not intentionally targeting the post. In the past a UN vehicle was used as a cover to capture an Israeli soldier who was then tortured to death.

Arabian Fables Myth – the Palestinians

The concept of a Palestinian people is a fundamental lie. And the most successful manipulation of the media in modern history. This lie that caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people is continually and libelously spread by a media that is malicious, naïve, and uniformed, and by anti-Semitic Left-wing groups.. Jimmy "toxic peanut syndrome" Carter, revisionist Middle East professors and PLO propagandists.

Until 1948, the Jews Were the Palestinians! In reality, the concept of Palestinians is one that did not exist until about 1948, when the Arab inhabitants of what was to become Palestine wanted to differentiate themselves from the Jews...

Book, 'When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel-Period of British Rule, 1918-1948: Volume Two':

The Palestinian National Movement and its Palestine Authority aim to rewrite the history of the Land of Israel. They have developed several agendas about the history of the country. One agenda claims that they are the ancient population of the country they call Falstin (Palestine). The other claims said they settled in the country in 640; they have a history of 1,381 years. The Jews, they say, have no historical claim on that country; but another agenda claims that Jews did populate the country, but the Romans conquers never exiled the Jews two thousand years ago. The Jews converted to Islam during the Arab-Muslim occupation of the country (640-1099) and that the Palestinians are the descendants of these Jews and, therefore, the rightful heirs of the country. But the historical facts tell a different story. This book is the second volume of When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel. The first volume deals with 640-1914 and brings evidence that most Palestinians are descendants of immigrants who came to the country from Arab and Muslim countries in small numbers during a slow process over hundreds of years; and between the end of the nineteenth century and First World War, their number grew by immigrant workers.

This volume brings evidence that under the British Mandate rule (1918-1948), waves of Arab/Muslim immigrant workers entered the country illegally because of the British policy to ignore illegal immigration. The British mandate government actually ordered the Transjordan army responsible for controlling the borders to ignore illegal immigration. Also, the British Army brought Arab workers from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to build and work in their camps. The economic and employment opportunities created by the Zionist Movement, Jewish investors and immigrants, Christian organizations, and the British Mandate in the Land of Israel drew an increasing number of Arab immigrant workers. These opportunities were much better than those they had in their home countries.

Origins

Over 100,000 or at least 150,000 (to some estimates, such as the testimony given in the U.S. Congress in 1939) immigrated during the British Mandate as job seekers due to the prosperity Zionists brought to a barren land after several millennia. Immigrants included Arab - Egyptians Syrian, Algerian, Sudanese, and South Arabians. At least 50,000 or more immigrated from Hauran, Syria alone. Other Muslims from Bosnia during the and fascist Nazi Slavic-Muslims after World War II.

So-called "Palestinians," who, up to the 1960s were referred to as South Syrians prior to the 1920s, later as 'Arabs" or more specifically Palestine Arabs, since the late 1960s have adopted this moniker and comprise a mixture of: Syrian Arabs, Saudi Arabs, Sudanese [Afro-]Arabs, Egyptian, Turkish, Kurdish, Bosnian, Algerian and others (which explains their surnames - telling of their origin/original land). Yet, this 'mixture' was never cohesive, nor did it ever before consider itself as a "nation."

Christians

Main article: Palestine#Christians

Diaspora

The Palestinian community in Chile is the largest outside the Middle East, having a football team called Club Palestino, bussinesses and descendants on many political parties from different views. Those immigrants that went to Chile were Christians and went during the Ottoman rule, thus, called originally "Turks" by many Chileans. Checho Hirane has been a center-right political commentator in Chile, his family is Arab-Palestinian.

500,000 Palestinians are Christians around the world, they form and estimated 6-7% of the global Palestinian population. 48% are Greek Orthodox, 38% Catholic and 4% are Evangelicals and Protestants.

See also

• Palestinian Authority
• Two-state solution
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Palestinian Arabs
• Israel's security needs
• Jordan, sometimes considered a "Palestinian homeland"
• Omar Shakir

References

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."